Greek Week Aims for Campus Unity

Saturday marked the exciting conclusion to Greek Week 2008. A barbecue held at Kogan Plaza brought the teams together for the last time to announce the winning team, as well as Greek God and Goddess for this year.

Greek week is a series of events meant to celebrate the Greek community, fraternities, sororities, and multicultural organizations alike, while raising money for a philanthropic organization.  This year, profits went to a local food bank called So Others May Eat. This year also marked the first time that the multicultural community has been included.

Greek week fostered friendly competition as members of the Inter-Fraternity council, Pan-Hellenic association and multicultural Greek council were split into teams and pitted against each other in the Olympic-themed events. The winning teams for some events were determined by participation points, such as the unity ball and a forum on Greek Life led by guest speaker David Stollman. Other events, including the date auction on Monday, an Olympic relay on Tuesday, a pumpkin carving contest on Wednesday and the talent show on Thursday night all consisted of first, second, and third place finishes. The participation points and place finishes were tallied to determine the final results:

Third place went to the white team - Alpha Phi, Sigma Chi, Phi Sigma Kappa, and Sigma Psi Zeta. Second place went to the black team: Sigma Delta Tau, Zeta Beta Tau, and Pi Kappa Alpha. First place was awarded to the blue team: Phi Kappa Psi, Alpha Delta Pi, and Iota Nu Delta. The titles of Greek God and Greek Goddess went to Jack Burmingham of Phi Kappa Psi and Katie Mize of Alpha Delta Pi.

There has been some controversy to the blue team’s win because the president of the Inter-Fraternity Council and the president of the Pan-Hellenic Association are in Phi Kappa Psi and Alpha Delta Pi respectively. Claims that the blue team was stacked have appeared on GW’s section of the gossip site juicy campus. But none of this has quelled the excitement of the week or of the blue team’s win.

Alpha Delta Pi pledge Paula Shulman said, “Greek week got the whole community involved. It was great seeing everyone out in full force, especially the multicultural community because it’s the first year that they’ve been involved.”

-Jenn Neuner